Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-21
P4RAGRAPHEC.

has become the mother Of five children
within the last eleven months.
A LAW has been passed in Waldeck,
Germany, forhidding the granting of a
marriage license to q person addicted
TO the liquor habit.
A LADY in Saline County, Missouri,
came within sixteen votes of beating
the most popular man in the county
for the Office of register of deeds.
Mrs. MARY ANN Billion recent
Iy died at Woodland Park ILL.,,
and on the same day her sister.
Mrs. Eliza O. Wheeler, died in
Toronto, Canada.
MAYOR ROBERTSON, Of Concord, n.
H., recently vetoed q bill increasing
the salary of his office from $500 to
$1,000. The Board of Aldermen
passed it over his veto,
Iris computed that there are nearly
thousand women in Iowa who own
farms, and give them their per-
sonal attention. Only eighteen of
these farms are mortgaged.
JULIA OHR, eight years of age, ar
rived in New York from Germany last
week. She weighs lao pounds, and
will probably be placed on exhibition
at one of the dime museums.
FARMERS in Wiltshire, England, ,
have been obliged by hard times to
reduce the wages of their labors from
one to two shillings week SO that
Low eight shillings week is the usual
wage.
Elk SECRETARY HoLCoMB, of the
American Legation at Pekin, says
that out OF the 100000 inhabit.
ants ofthe Chinese Empire fully 3OO,-
100000 spend less than $1.5O g.
month for food.
MRS. MARY MCMAHON, OF Vineland,
N. J., is building house, and the Pc
culiarity is that she is doing all the
work herself, acting as architect, car
penter, plasterer and day laborer.
She is seventy years old.
OLD "Aunty Jane" Collins, g. col
ored women, who died in Nashville,
Tenn, last week at the age of one hun
dred and four years was thought to
be the Oldest person in the state, and
was at one time a servant of Gen.
Jackson.
"THE great Kansas corn dance"
described as an annual rejoicing GUS
tom at the end of the corn harvest,
and somewhat similar to the old En-
glish morris dancing, is to be an at
traction this winter at g. London va
riety theater.
AN Omaha lawyer took q diamond
ring as q retainer from man accused
ofgrand larceny. On his way to lunch
con he slipped into q jewelry store
to ask what the diamond was worth,
and the jeweler identified the ring as
one stolen from him.
MICHAEL ROCH. laborer on one Of
the docks in Chicago, lit his pipe and
leaned up against O. post for q smoke.
Half an hour after ward companion
saw him in the same attitude and
tossed piece of coal at him, but he
did not move. He was dead.
A GHOST in the form of q woman Of
prodigious height, dressed all in black,
terrified the negroes of Birmingham,
Ais, for a. long time until one Of the
Drawer Of them investigated matters
with a hickory stick. The ghost proved
to be the son of q respectable farmer.
Greensboro, KY, recently made q trip
through Davies County and says that
he met scores OF people who not only
did not know that the Anarchists bad
been hanged, but in many Instances
did not know who the Anarchists
were.
a. D. BULLARD, an old resident Of
Virginia City, ouarreled with q neigh
Dor and struck him severe blow on
the head. At the same instant, al
though bis antagonist did not return
the blow, Billiard staggered back, fell
to the floor unconscious and soon ex-
pired.
AUNT NANCY HoNAKER, of Laneville,
KY, who is seventy-six years old, has
a mule that she knows is over sixty
years old. It came from Virginia
sixty years ago, and how old it was
then she doesn't know. 1t still earns
it's living under the saddle and before
q buggy.
In Salt Lake City the houses of the
Mormons all have two doors, even
thesmallest of them. Some have al
so two wood-sbeds and two wells. A
house that begun with only one room
is frequently heightened out room by
room and door by door as new wives
are taken.
A PARTY of picnickers from Orlando,
KY, who explored the big cave in
Rockcastle County recently, found
nine dinner plates of glazed ware,
which were apparently of great age.
They had become so softened by the
action of the air that they crumbled
to pieces wi hen touched.
MRS. MARIA PHILIPS, Of Denver,
Col, who is one hundred and one
years old, has just been committed to
the poor ncuee by her relatives, who
say that she disturbs them by crying
out in her sleep and making other
noises at night. She is well preserved
and an habitual smoker.
AS Mrs. sumpter, who lives on Sol
der Greek, Ore, was busy about the
house the other day she saw an an e.
lope out in an opening some distance
away. She took down her husbands
rifle, banged away, killed the antelope,